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After a long courtship with 238 cities that resembled Silicon Valley’s version of "The Bachelor," Jeff Bezos threw his suitors a plot twist and kept three roses for the season finale. Rather than choosing a single city to build a second headquarters, Amazon will build two new HQ locations in New York’s Long Island City and Northern Virginia’s Crystal City, along with a smaller “operations center” in Nashville.

On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your senators and ask them to support the First Step Act, S. 3649, and to co-sponsor and whip YES when approached by Senate Republican leadership.

1) Video of the Week: In this video, the Cato Institute’s Ryan Bourne and Vanessa Brown Calder joined Diane Katz of the Heritage Foundation to talk about federal regulations that disproportionately harm low income Americans.

Within a few days of Congress returning from recess, House Republicans are once again undermining the document that conservatives promise time and time again to uphold -- the Constitution. This latest move comes despite the GOP losing control of the House just over a week ago for its leadership continually failing to uphold a number of conservative promises to the American people.

The Senate, led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), has a prime chance to change its reputation and pass a landmark piece of conservative legislation. It arises on the issue of criminal justice reform that has strong bipartisanship across all ideological spectrums. Although most of the bipartisanship we see in the Senate coalesces around bad policy, such as wasteful spending, mass surveillance, and more, the bipartisanship in this instance is directed at very good policy.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- FreedomWorks is hosting its Digital Day of Action today in support of the First Step Act, which currently awaits action in the Senate. The First Step Act is a bipartisan, common sense bill that utilizes evidence based policies to lower crime rates, enhance public safety, save taxpayer dollars, and help fix the United States’ broken justice system.